SO, WHO REMEMBERS THE HIGH SCHOOL AU VIRUS? REMEMBER HOW FUN THAT WAS?

Well, there was a lot of interest in re-doing the HSAU, and it was certainly one of our most popular viruses - so for the sake of lacking redundancy, we're putting a new spin on it! That's why this month, it's time for HSAU's big brother - the College AU! Taking place from Monday 19th to Friday 30th, it's a long one, so I expect y'all to go nuts with it.

Maybe your character's a professor, or a TA. Maybe they're a student. Maybe they're a mature student who's getting weird looks for still being in class, or a precocious brat who's somehow skipped right the way to college level. Maybe they're the foreign exchange student, the kid skating by on bullshit classes so he can party his liver away, or that hardass final-year RA who just wants the kids on his floor to let him finish his goddamn dissertation. Maybe they're the cleaner for the dorms, the librarian, or the guidance counsellor. Maybe they work in the campus Starbucks, are the landlord for the campus-town student housing, or own the popular student bar in town. Basically, take every college or coffeeshop AU you've ever read in your fandom and toss it in the DDD blender. If it could conceivably exist in a college town or campus, you can go nuts with it - feel free to contact a mod if you're not sure about your idea.

You can, of course, fuck with characters' ages just like in the HSAU. You're free to age them back to late teens or early twenties if you want to let them be a student of any level, and you can push them forward to grown-up professor age if you want as well. You can go nuts with the AU history, too, in terms of creating friendships and relationships with characters - roommates? childhood friends who followed each other to college? worst enemies since freshman year? casual sex buddies? as long as the other mun agrees, anything goes.

DDD itself will be functioning as the school forum, just like in HSAU…Ah, you guys know how this shit works, you managed it for HSAU and Hogwarts!AU. :'D Any questions, comments?

Plotting post is here!

Duckworth University (DwU) is a university with a frankly ridiculously huge campus surrounded by a comfortable college town. It has every facility you can think of somewhere, and probably a few you can't think of yet too. The classes are wide and varied to say the least - what do your professor characters teach, again? What are your student characters majoring in? What classes have they managed to sign up for?

Any questions can be left here, for the sake of keeping this post tidy-ish, or asked directly to the mods. (Any questions about how American colleges (the system that forms the basis for college AUs, and therefore this virus) work can be directed mostly at our American mods. :'3 Google might be your friend on this one, but there won't be a test on perfect knowledge of the American education system or anything.) Suffice to say, you've got a lot of freedom with characters signing up for crazy off-major classes, especially if they're first-years. Teachers and students both feel free to be normal and play creative, however you want to do it.

At any rate! Dorms come in double, single, and a few triples. If you want to be randomised with a roommate, put your character in the thread below, and I'll put up a list on Friday so you can plot over the weekend. You're welcome to shove characters together yourselves if you want specific combinations, of course. Characters can have applied to be put together/in a single for IC reasons, but of course we live to subvert their hopes and dreams. Second-years and above have the choice to live off-campus in a house with some other characters, if you want to break into small groups to go that route, or the characters could be commuting from home if you prefer, but the dorms are open to students of all ages.

Societies, sports, and clubs are also up for grabs. Students can run them, so don't worry about finding a player-character Professor to lead, but if a teacher mun wants to set one up or sign on to be the club's staff liaison that's cool too. Set up a thread here for people to sign up with. (At my university there is literally a "Pirate Society" where all they do is get drunk, watch pirate themed movies, have a rule where all members have to talk like a pirate at all times during meetings, and LARP crazy pirate stuff once a month. That's the kind of baseline for a club we're looking at here.) You can also set up a frat or a sorority if your character is the sort of rich little shit who'd be in one, etc etc.

Remember, we're going to be coming in several months into the first semester of the year, here. Plot some CR from those months, or from previous years together!

Once again, this is going to take place from Monday 19th to Friday 30th, so you've got the better part of this week to plan.

I feel so weird about posting hiatus notices when I'm kind of all aboard the ss failboat activity wise anyway, but for those of you who don't know (but care) I've been studying abroad all semester long in France and we're coming up on exams and paper time, plus my parents are flying here to visit me next week blah blah blah so the short of it is that I'll be basically totally absent to the next two to three weeks. If anyone really needs Loki to go harass them ping me on plurk (@luftballons) or send me a pm or something and I will do my best to either grab a break or send my minions in my place. But after I get back this party is back on and I'll hit up those few tags I owe, etc....

and uh thanks for putting up with my slow ass since september